Chris Horner exposes EPA chief Lisa Jackson’s ploy to avoid FOIA requests for her e-mail. [Planet Gore]
Category: EPA
EPA Charged With Lethal Experiments On Hundreds Of Unsuspecting Subjects
Driessen: The coming environmental battlegrounds
“When American voters re-elected President Obama, they also returned his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior and Energy departments and wide-ranging agenda for “fundamentally transforming” our nation.” [Washington Times]
Coal CEO prays for America; Outlines hardships to come for energy
“Robert E. Murray, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Murray Energy Corp., delivered this prayer and message to approximately 50 staff members on Wednesday afternoon.” [Wheeling Intelligencer]
Trzupek: EPA witch hunts on taxpayer dime
“Indeed, as we’ve seen in case after case, this is the EPA’s new approach: Forget about risk evaluation because there is no risk so small that it’s not worth spending huge amounts of public and private dollars to lessen just a little more. That’s not science, folks, nor is it sound public policy. It’s simply a witch hunt, and now that the president has been re-elected, we’re going to have so many more of them that it would make 17th-century Puritans living in Salem blush.” [Rich Trzupek, Washington Times]
EHP refuses to investigate EPA researcher misconduct
Environmental Health Perspectives editor Hugh Tilson today refused to investigate EPA researchers for scientific misconduct, offering instead to handle the matter as a mere “letter to the editor.”
Last week we transmitted to Tilson prima facie evidence that EPA researchers Andrew Ghio, Wayne Cascio and Martha Sue Carraway committed researcher misconduct by omitting material information from a September 2011 study.
There so far is no “good faith” dispute of the facts we presented. Allowing Ghio/Cascio/Carraway to escape investigation/prosecution by simply responding to a letter (likely in an obfuscatory manner) is unacceptable.
Obama halted EPA regs for political split second to plan massive 2013 environmental regs
“Obama was not kidding when he said that ‘voting is the best revenge’ because he may have the last laugh whether he gets re-elected or not.” [Kerry Picket, Washington Times]
November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation
“More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants.” [Washington Examiner]
Ralph Hall: Time to rein in the EPA
The scientific enterprise at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is broken, contrary to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s assertions that “science is the backbone of everything we do at EPA,” or that major regulations are based on the recommendations of EPA’s “independent” science advisors. As Americans face a fragile economy and skyrocketing energy prices fueled by President Obama’s agenda, it is important to pull back the curtain on the ideologically-driven processes EPA is using to justify an avalanche of costly rules. Continue reading Ralph Hall: Time to rein in the EPA
New documents prove falsification in EPA air study; JunkScience renews retraction request
JunkScience.com has uncovered new documents conclusively proving that EPA researchers materially falsified a September 2011 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). Continue reading New documents prove falsification in EPA air study; JunkScience renews retraction request
GOP senator would likely oppose potential Romney EPA chief nominee
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is signaling that fealty to former President George W. Bush’s administration does not guarantee a potential senior nominee a clear path through Senate confirmation.
Vitter told Greenwire last week that James Connaughton, Bush’s former head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, would not get his support to be Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator. [The Hill]
Danger, Mitt Romney, Danger: GE General Counsel in Running for EPA Administrator
The general counsel of green energy rent-seeking, cap-and-trade-loving, and USCAP-founding member General Electric is reportedly a leading candidate to head the EPA in a Romney administration. Continue reading Danger, Mitt Romney, Danger: GE General Counsel in Running for EPA Administrator